11/05/2014 BBC London News

all of the stories today on the BBC News Channel. That is it from me.

Stay with us on BBC One for the news where you are. Good night.

Good evening. The number of billionaires living in Britain has

risen to more than 100 according to the Sunday Times super rich list,

with nearly two`thirds of them in London. The paper says there are now

more billionaires here per head of population than any other city in

the world. Here's Sarah Harris. London, according to the latest Rich

list, is home to more billionaires than any other city in the world.

These are now Britain's richest man, together worth ?11.9 billion.

The owner of Arsenal has been knocked off the top spot but he

still has ?10 billion. Roman Abramovich now has a mere ?8.5

billion. The man whose life work has been studying the super`rich says

London has become the place to live. The culture, rule of law,

property rights are protected, they will not be chucked in prison and

have their fortune ceased. Good schools that they like to try to get

their kids into, like Eton. Two the top five on the list live on the

street in Kensington where the average price of a house is ?40

million. 72 residents are thought to have a fortune of more than ?1

billion, compared to 48 in Moscow. But record price tags for property

are easily affordable for the super`rich. The rich list will be

published next week. As well as council elections this

month, four London boroughs will also elect a local Mayor. One of

them is Tower Hamlets, which has been facing serious questions about

their current mayor's spending. Lutfur Rahman denies any wrongdoing,

but this particular contest is being closely watched. Here's our

Political Editor, Tim Donovan. Left Rahman was elected the

independent Mayor of Tower Hamlets after the national Labour Party

rejected him as its candidate. `` Lutfur Rahman. This was due to

support from the Bangladeshi community, his slightly outnumber

white people in the borough. This is now about a civil war. This is a

splinter group of the Labour Party and they called the Labour MPs in

the House of Commons their colleagues and brothers and sisters.

Clearly that is what is happening. Maybe there are characteristics

within the local Labour Party that somehow put people's backs up. The

Labour candidate is John Biggs, currently a London Assembly member,

who was joined by the party leader this week. He says there are clear

differences between him and Lutfur Rahman. He will tell you he lives by

Labour values but the evidence that he is too much of a separatist and

not part of the mainstream anymore. We offer a very real choice which is

about a leadership broadly based in the borough which respects all

communities and is going to take our borough forward at a time of

enormous change and pressure. The Conservatives say that the two front

runners don't provide a clear choice. Ideally it would be myself

but I think Tower Hamlets needs a Mayor that is open to all the

community and has that commitment and energy. According to the current

Mayor, the differences between him and his old party are about policy

and portraying him as being governed by and for Bangladeshi people has

been racist. Free home care for the only group of people that we have

continued to provide for. We don't charge for care for vulnerable

residents in the community and I am the only person continuing that. It

is certainly an outcome hard to predict. A full list of candidates

standing for election in Tower Hamlets can be found at the address

on your screen. Now let's look at the weather forecast. Good evening.

Still a chance of the odd shower overnight but that Bruce is starting

to ease. Tomorrow another mixed bag. `` breeze is starting to ease.

Sunshine and showers but the wind is lighter. High pressure builds in on

Wednesday and it gets slowly warmer towards the end of the week.

That is it from the BBC London weekend team. We will be back

tomorrow morning the latest news, travel and weather from 6:30am. For

now we wish you a very good night. Good evening. If you are after some

guaranteed dry weather and warmth, you need to hang in there for a

couple more days. In the short term, we are sticking with a mixture of

sunshine at times and heavy showers. Showers keep going tonight but the

cloud breaks up to give clearer spells across northern Scotland

particularly, so here there will be a touch of frost. The breeze eases

down further South and most places will begin at eight or nine

degrees. We start Monday